massage
\ma.saʒ\
The verdict
“massage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,347. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,347
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pétrissage des muscles pour les assouplir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-massage · massage · French
massage · rank #9,347 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,347
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marshall
Nearest frequency peer: marshall (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « massage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- justificati…
justification
90,657 corpus weight
- législative
législative
90,656 corpus weight
- marshall
marshall
90,655 corpus weight
- massage
massage
90,654 corpus weight
- modestes
modestes
90,653 corpus weight
- mondiales
mondiales
90,652 corpus weight
What this shows « massage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | massage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « massage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around massage (IPA \ma.saʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,347 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pétrissage des muscles pour les assouplir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for massage, with forms such as "amssage", "masage", and "masasge". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "masse", "massue", "message", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is massage, spelled M-A-S-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Pétrissage des muscles pour les assouplir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how massage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le massage fut pratiqué de bas en haut en refoulant les liquides ; peu à peu les membres s’assouplirent, l’enfant commença à crier de plus en plus fort, la coloration devint rosée, la respiration était plus forte, les mouvements plus libres.
Ce n’était point une linition douce, une fomentation onctueuse, mais un massage vigoureux, pratiqué à bras raccourcis, et qui rappelait plutôt les éraillures de l’étrille que les caresses de la main.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amssage
- masage
- masasge
- massaeg
- massagge
- massgae
- mmassage
- msasage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of massage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).